* "Russia Is Bolding Moving Into The Middle
East -- Preparing To Lead The Nations Prophesied To March With Her Against
Israel In Fulfillment of Ezekiel 38-39" -- Russia's
recent diplomatic and military maneuvers in the Middle East are breathtaking.
Russia has become the protector of Islam, by President Putin's own decree.
The lineup of nations behind Russia is precisely setting the stage for fulfillment
of this Bible prophecy.

If Russia cannot back up this threat, she is finished as a world
power. And, Putin knew this reality back on April 12, 2003. Therefore, he
must believe he has the military power to back up his demand. And, sure enough,
the United States has backed down time and time again in her threats to force
a "Regime Change", in Iran, in Syria and in Venezuela. What makes
Russia so sure of herself as she faces America? Russia has Scalar Weaponry
and Quantum Potential Weapons, which America does not!

* "Bible Prophecy AND Illuminati Plan
Being Fulfilled In Jerusalem! Incredibly, current
news events in Jerusalem are fulfilling Bible prophecy and a particular part
of the Globalist Plan known as the "New Jerusalem Covenant Project".
A formal worship center for all monotheistic faiths is in the works.

*
"Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan To Track Your Every
Move With RFID" -- Regularly $24.99, Sale $19.99, Save $5.00!

Popular TV commercial. Lost truck driver in the middle of nowhere says to
the trim and proper lady at the IBM service desk, "How do you know we
are lost"? Her reply: "The boxes told me". RFID chips were
allowing those boxes to be tracked, in real time! RFID is designed to track
the movement of everything, everywhere, at all times. While major retailers
like

Wal-Mart have seized on this technology to save expenses, government will
quickly use this ability to track YOU!

"Technology is a queer thing - it brings you great gifts on the one
hand, while it stabs you in the back with the other."

Imagine a world with no more privacy. Your every purchase is recorded, your
every piece of belonging is recorded, and where someone in a foreign country
has a remote record of everything you have ever bought, your every movement,
and knows everything about you.

Understand how Anti-Christ will identify, track, and locate
billions of people left on Planet Earth through global surveillance, super
computers, biometric recognition, and microchip implants. See the world’s
first cyborg (Kevin Warwick), bellybutton chips for babies, Digital Angel
implants, and the most frightening microchip, the Soul Catcher 2025. Receive
an in-depth study on the ‘Mark of the Beast’ and ‘666'.

Additionally, Be informed of the U.N. Meditation Room, its stone
alter, and how it is dedicated to the god man worships under many names and
forms.

Discover the plan and a global document entitled, ‘Global Ethic’
uniting all worlds’ religions. See the role of the Parliament of World
Religions, Lucis Trust, United Religions Initiative, and the Theosophical
Society. See the ‘World Scripture’ that is a spiritual smorgasbord
of every religion, belief, tradition, and sacred text under the sun. Learn
how the World Economy is coming together as prophesied in Daniel chapters
two and seven.

Understand One World Government, Military, Religious, and Economic System
that will be ruled by Anti-Christ (Rev 13). See how the stage is being set
right before your eyes. Learn of the deceptive World Constitution, Earth Charter,
unconstitutional Executive Orders, Global Biodiversity Treaty, State of the
World Forum presentations by Mikhail Gorbachev, and many other documents promising
to usher in a New World Order Utopia.

Understand the true agenda of the U.N. - the sinister International Criminal
Court, World Court, World Trade Organization, World Bank, and International
Monetary Fund. Become informed on what could happen to about 50% of American
land through United Nations Biosphere Reserves, World Heritage Sites, and
the Wildlands Project. Take a tour of the U.N. to see their goal of 'peace
and safety' has nothing to do with true peace, but world control and domination.

*
"The Coming Prince", by Sir Robert Anderson -- Reprint of
Original Classic

Another Classic Reprint! Sir Robert Anderson was the first to clearly show
that Jesus fulfilled the 69 weeks of years prophecy (173,880 days), when He
rode along that path on a donkey known now as "Palm Sunday". This
prophecy has been declared the greatest stamp of Biblical authenticity in
the entire world!

Sir Robert Anderson meticulously details this most incredible prophecy, and
then reveals what Daniel 7 has to say about Antichrist, featuring a complete
chronology. Sir Isaac Newton exclaimed that the truth of the entire Bible
can be proven by this one stupendous prophecy -- which was fulfilled on THE
precise day in history, 173,800 days after its prophetic beginning! And, no
one has ever explained the math of this prophecy better than Sir Robert Anderson.

*
"Number In Scripture: Its Supernatural Design and Spiritual Significance",
by E.W. Bullinger

This classic reference book on Biblical numerology provides a complete synopsis
of the spiritual significance of numbers found in the Bible.

Did you know that Satan got his fascination with numbers and many of his
definitions of certain numbers from God's consistent usage of numbers? Truly,
Satan never had an original idea; he just copied from God.

Christians worship the Creator Who created numbers, while Satanists ignore
the Creator and worship the creature (Numbers) instead. What a "night-and-day"
and eternity difference!

Cutting Edge is so pleased this old reference book is now back in print,
for it is a masterpiece and will dramatically increase your faith.

In this era of extreme Christian Apostasy (falling away from key old doctrines),
we need a clarion call back to the "Doctrines That Divide". Jesus
was the most divisive spiritual leader of all time. He said He was the only
way to Heaven, He said He was coming to bring a sword, not peace, as people
disagreed over His message.

Religious leaders today are trying to unite people on the basis of what they
can agree upon, forgetting those "Doctrines That Divide". On White
Throne Judgment Day, too many people will realize that Jesus still held those
old "Doctrines That Divide".

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His daily work in their lives, and to hold fast to those "Doctrines That
Divide". 256 pages

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"DaVinci Decoded: Truth or Myth" -- Millions of
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though a novel, claims to be based on historical facts that not only question,
but blatantly attack the deity of Jesus Christ and the divine inspiration
of the Holy Scriptures. The simple fact of this matter is that Antichrist
cannot arise and successfully claim his lineage back to King David without
people believing the Merovingian Blood Line lie taught by the DaVinci Code.
This book prepares people for Antichrist! Is 2 hours long. Also has 150 colorful
PowerPoint slides

"Outcome-Based Religion: Apostasy, Purpose, and the Paradigm
Shift" -- Rick Warren's "Purpose Driven Church" movement
is truly sweeping America today and soon will sweep the world. Unfortunately,
the developers of the methods and practices currently implemented to build
this New Paradigm Church have not considered the Word of God as a valid source
document in the developmental process. Cutting Edge believes it is highly
likely this church movement is fulfilling the "Church of Laodicea"
prophecy of Revelation 3!

"Nephilim Walk Among us Again - End Time Deception" --
Jesus warned in Mathew 24 that "For as the days of Noe were, so shall
also the coming of the son of man be". Mr. Dominick explains just what
was happening in the days of Noah and how Angels married Human women and had
Children by them, known as Nephilim. And, he explains why prophecy teaches
they shall walk among men again at the End of the Age!

"Israel: God's Timepiece -- Will Arab, Israeli Conflict Begin
WWIII?" -- Both the Bible and the Illuminati Plan say that Israel
is the key to the timing of all Last Days events. Watch Israel, as Mr. Dominick
explains in great detail. With so much emphasis on the Middle East and on
various dates floating around, this DVD will properly answer your many questions.
Excellent teaching of Bible doctrine and prophecy.

"Secret Mysteries of America's Beginnings
- Volume I -- The New Atlantis"-- We got back in-stock
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back is to realize sales; therefore, we ask that you limit the numbers of
people to whom you give your copy to view, but encourage them to invest $25
in this ministry to buy their own copy. Thank you for your Christian understanding
and cooperation.

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The approach to the two-sided coin surrounding the beginning of this nation,
reveals so many hidden plans and strategies that many involved from the beginning
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Please continue to talk to your friends, neighbors, family members, and co-workers
about this video. This is a message the whole world needs to hear! Only when
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the correct perspective. This video tells you why we are at war in Iraq and
Afghanistan, by going back to 1580, where our true history began!

---------- This Weeks Hot News ----------

DVD
or VHSI. The Internet is abuzz with "Rumors of War" and economic
collapse will occur sometime between March 20 - 28! While
anything is possible, Cutting Edge does not believe that either dire disaster
will occur during that period, or for some time to come -- for the following
reasons:

A. InNEWS2116,
entitled, "Russia Is Bolding Moving Into The Middle East -- Preparing
To Lead The Nations Prophesied To March With Her Against Israel In Fulfillment
of Ezekiel 38-39", we show that Russia is systematically moving into
the Middle East both diplomatically and militarily in exactly the manner you
would expect if she is to one day lead the prophesied Russian invasion of
Israel.

Iran is one of those nations which is foretold to march with the Russian
forces against Israel during the Latter Days of Time. This prophecy tells
us that Iran will not be destroyed by any force prior to this invasion. Further,
while it is possible that Iran could suffer an attack on her nuclear facilities
without launching a counter-attack of such magnitude that the entire Middle
East into all-out war, Iran has both the military capability and diplomatic
courage to unleash the hounds of war so greatly that all Iraq would explode
in all-out war, Israel would be attacked, Saudi oil installations attacked,
the Strait of Hormuz attacked and closed to oil traffic, and Islamic suicide
bombers striking targets against American cities.

Since all elements of the Illuminati Plan are not yet in place to start the
91-day World War III, we believe it highly unlikely that an attack on Iran
will occur.

One reality getting a lot of play in this disaster scenario is the Iranian
plan to begin offering the option on her oil exchange of countries buying
her crude in Eruos rather than in American dollars, a plan which springs into
action March 20. We have alluded to the possibility that President Bush might
be rattling the sabers of war to dissuade Iranian leaders of following through
with this plan.

There is no doubt that trading oil in Euros would damage the American dollar,
particularly if the idea catches on to any significant degree, but you must
keep two factors in mind:

* Any effect on the dollar is likely to be gradual, and less of a damage
to the American economy than all-out war as described above. On the other
hand, an attack on Iranian facilities could truly collapse the economy of
the entire world, and that will not happen until the Illuminati is ready to
start World War III.

* Former Satanists have told me emphatically that the Plan specifically calls
for the American people to feel wealthy right up until the time for the first
shot to be fired in World War III. We will not see collapse of either the
American or world economy until that time arrives. You can take that to the
bank! Somehow, the damage done to the American dollar will be limited in scope
so it will not bankrupt this country before the time is right.

In fact, all the economic factors within this economy have been flashing
"ruin" since 1998, but the economy has been kept on track enough
so most Americans still "feel wealthy".

B. Israel is not ready to go to war, because she has not yet withdrawn
her settlers from the West Bank. We have posted this reality so often,
we hate to sound trite, but since Mass Media daily news is encouraging people
to fear war before the time has arrived to actually go to war, we will continue
to state this truth. Israel is planning to annihilate the Palestinians in
fulfillment of Obadiah 15-18, and must withdraw her settlers from The Gaza
Strip and the West Bank so as to remove them "out of harm's way".
Therefore, the war with the Palestinians, Syrians, Egyptians, and Jordanians
which will likely be the trigger of the Middle East war will not occur until
those 80,000 Jewish settlers are pulled out of the West Bank.

C. In NEWS2115,
entitled, "Bible Prophecy And Illuminist Plan Are Being Fulfilled
In Jerusalem!", we report that a key minor part of the Illuminati Plan
is finally unfolding! A formal worship center for all monotheistic
faiths within Jerusalem is in the works. This plan has taken a long time to
begin unfolding, but is considered a key element to accomplish before the
Christ (Antichrist) can arise.

Clearly, this portion of the Plan will take time to unfold. The money will
have to be authorized, the land selected and purchased, the cornerstone laid
and the building built. This process will take months if not years. In the
House of
Theosophy seminar into which I was sneaked, this combination worship center
for adherents of Judaism, Islam and Christianity was a very important step
in the final working out of the "New Jerusalem Covenant Project".

Until this project is completed, there will likely be no all-out regional
war.

D. President Bush's planned political ruin seems on track, but needs
more time to develop.

In our NEWS1929,
posted almost two years ago, Cutting Edge reported that we could see the outlines
of a deliberate Illuminist plan to discredit President Bush so completely
as to cause his utter ruin. Later in this newsletter, we shall report that
the "Impeach" word is getting clearer and louder all the time. You
see, if President Bush slides to impeachment, he will take down with him the
only two enemies the Illuminati has ever admitted to having: 1) National Sovereignty
(Patriotism); 2) Fundamental Christianity.

When President Bush ordered the Iraqi invasion, he did so over the objections
of the International Community. Now that the invasion has proven to be such
an unmitigated disaster, his political demise would forever discredit the
concept that any national sovereign could order an attack by his own authority.
Bush's demise is likely to lead to firm international laws which would force
any sovereign to gain approval from the United Nations for any military action.
Such a law has long been coveted by the Illuminati.

When President Bush claimed to be a Christian based solely on his testimony
(words), he carried captive untold tens of millions of genuine Christians
who would have known the truth about him had they only been looking at his
actions rather than his words, just as Jesus commanded (Matt 7:16 )

Therefore, we believe that the coming November elections will probably elect
a Democrat majority in Congress, thus setting the stage for his impeachment.

E. The planned global Bird Flu panic has not yet reached the stage
where it will explode into killing fury. I sense, from posting articles
daily in our Daily
News section, that the propaganda campaign has a ways yet to go before
the flu virus is finally unleashed. While the Bird Flu virus is reportedly
spreading across the world, there are some major places it has not yet appeared
-- like the United States.

This media campaign to prepare the peoples of the world has some time to
be worked out before the climax is reached.

All these factors argue for more time to be given to the global plan before
the unbelievably short World War III can begin. Because of the incredible
brevity of this world war -- 91 days -- no single element is going to occur
before all are ready to occur. Both Bible prophecy and elements of the Illuminati
Plan seem to require more time to unfold.

II.
Several weeks ago, global crude oil prices began to fall because Western oil
traders became convinced that no attack against Iran was going to occur and
because crude oil inventories were near record levels. Given these
market factors, how does the Illuminati keep oil prices high?

"Saudi forces have foiled a double car bomb attack at one of the kingdom's
biggest oil processing plants. The attackers were prevented from breaking
through the gates when guards opened fire on them. Their two explosives-laden
cars blew up at the gates of the Abqaiq processing facility near the Gulf
coast of Saudi Arabia. The Saudi oil minister said the blast 'did not affect
operations' - denying an earlier report on Al-Arabiya television that a pipeline
was damaged. The facility 'continued to operate normally. Export operations
continued in full', the minister, Ali Naimi, said in a statement."

Did you notice that this attack failed to damage or destroy any oil producing
facilities, as the bombs blew up harmlessly at the gates and the suicide bombers
killed? No damage was inflicted on any mechanical parts of the plant. Operations
continued normally and export operations continued without one bit of interruption.

However, that did not stop oil traders from driving up crude oil prices,
based upon a mythological "fear" that some day, an attack might
succeed. Listen to what happened on the oil futures markets.

"The price of oil jumped on world markets as they heard of the attack
with the US benchmark, rising $1.26 to $61.80. It was the first attack on
an oil facility in Saudi Arabia and it targeted one of the kingdom's most
important. The huge facility handles around two-thirds of the country's oil
output..." (Ibid.)

Truly, if Saudi Arabian oil facilities were attacked and severely damaged,
crude oil prices throughout the world would naturally skyrocket. However,
these facilities are very heavily defended, as these "Al-Qaeda"
suicide bombers quickly discovered.

Truly, Jesus was quite correct when He prophesied "Rumors
of Wars" would be one of the indicators that the
End of the Age was close.

In order to keep nerves on edge, the mythical "Al-Qaeda" issued
a stern warning:

"ABQAIQ, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Suicide bombers carried out a bold attack
on the world's largest oil processing facility Friday but were stopped from
breaking in by guards who fired on their cars, exploding both vehicles and
killing the attackers. Al-Qaida purportedly claimed responsibility for the
attack, the first on an oil facility in Saudi Arabia. The assault raised speculation
that the militants were adopting the tactics of insurgents across the border
in Iraq, where the oil industry has been repeatedly targeted."

The huge difference between the Iraqi oil infrastructure and the Saudi is
that the Saudis know how to protect their industry and are doing it with professional
forces. The Iraqis, on the other hand, do not possess either the expertly
trained manpower nor the monetary resources necessary to protect their oil
industry. The Saudis also have the utmost assistance from the Americans, who
realized several decades ago that the US economy absolutely depended upon
Saudi output -- uninterrupted oil output.

This news story continues, as "Al-Qaeda" continued breathing threats
against the Saudis.

"Later, the al-Qaida terror group said two of its militants carried
out the suicide attack. The claim was posted on a Web site frequently used
by terror groups but there was no way to check its authenticity. This 'is
part of the project to rid the Arabian Peninsula of the infidels', the statement
read."

Note that this "threat" occurred on a website whose authenticity
could not be verified! When you see this caveat in a news story, you can bet
that American "Special Ops" people initiated the report. We have
seen this caveat dozens of times since 9/11 as the government hads issued
a warning of a new terror attack based upon information which could not be
verified, and each time, the warning has proven to be absolutely worthless.

But, this so-called terrorist threat against Saudi Arabian facilities can
be depended upon to keep the "fear pressure" on world crude oil
markets.

Further, to ensure that oil future crude oil prices remain under attack,
Nigerian militants have been attacking oil infrastructure for some time now.
Recently, they even seized hostages.

"WARRI, Nigeria - Six of nine foreign oil workers being held by militants
in Nigeria's southern delta were released by their captors today ... The militants,
whose campaign of kidnap and sabotage in the oil-producing Niger Delta has
already crippled a fifth of output from the world's eighth largest crude exporter,
warned of further, bigger attacks. Their threats pushed up US crude futures
by 64 cents to US$62.05 a barrel, while London Brent advanced 67 cents to
US$62.43."

Add to this news continued American pressure upon Venezuela, another oil-producing
giant, and you have the recipe for continued high prices, even as people throughout
the world have reached the conclusion that no attack on Iran is really going
to occur.

III. Russia and Iran agreed in principle that
Russia would enrich the fuel rods on Russian territory and ship them to Iranian
plants, rather than Iran enriching the uranium herself. In
theory, this agreement should have "lanced the boil" of propaganda
which has fueled such war speculation as the world has seldom seen.

"TOKYO (Reuters) - Iran said on Tuesday a possible joint venture with
Russia would ease world mistrust about its atomic aims highlighted in a U.N.
watchdog report saying Tehran is accelerating a fuel programme which could
make nuclear bombs. Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki reiterated
that Tehran, which insists its nuclear work aims only to generate electricity,
would not renounce it but said talks with Russia on jointly purifying uranium
would reduce international doubts.

" 'We would like to enjoy our rights like Japan to have nuclear technology,
of course for peaceful purposes', he said in Tokyo after meeting Japanese
Trade Minister Toshihiro Nikai. 'The Russian proposal would be a bridge between
Iran's right to peaceful use of nuclear energy and (gaining) international
trust', a Japanese official quoted Mottaki as telling Nikai. On Sunday, Iran
said it had reached a 'basic' agreement with Russia on a joint venture to
enrich uranium but it was unclear if that meant Iran would not pursue enrichment
technology at home, the key condition of Russia and the West."

When this "agreement in principle" was first announced, it sounded
like Russia would enrich all the fuel in her plants and ship them to Iran;
this type of agreement would have completely set Western "fears"
aside that Iran would use the enrichment process to create fuel to produce
nuclear bombs. However, as soon as the White House expressed "skepticism"
of the deal, news stories began to appear which cast doubt that Russia was
really going to enrich all the fuel Iran needs in Russian plants.

Therefore, the pot keeps boiling -- but not so vigorously as to boil over,
causing war.

Iran continues to poke fun at America, not acting in the least afraid of
the "world's only superpower".

"Tehran, Iran, Mar. 01 – One of the most senior figures in Iran’s
armed forces accused the West on Wednesday of using threats of military action
to dictate its terms to the Islamic Republic, while Western leaders know that
'a military confrontation with Iran is impossible and unfeasible', the state-run
Fars news agency reported. The Islamic Republic would never 'succumb to the
wishes of the West', Deputy Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi told reporters ...
Before being appointed as the number two in the Defence Ministry, General
Vahidi was a senior member of the high command of the Islamic Revolutionary
Guards Corps (IRGC). He is regarded as the father of the elite Qods Force,
the extra-territorial arm of the IRGC that has been responsible for the Guards’
operations beyond Iran’s borders."

" 'The West’s psychological operations are always greater than
their actual capabilities and are aimed at putting pressure on Iran so as
to force us to capitulate to their demands', Vahidi said. 'America and the
West are faced with numerous problems in implementing their military threats,
because such actions will pose more threats to themselves than to Iran', he
added.'

We have enunciated the most serious economic and military disasters which
would occur if the United States should launch even a limited attack on Iran.
And, Iran is right when they say that an attack on their facilities will hurt
us and our economy far worse than it will hurt Iran.

The West will not attack Iranian nuclear facilities unless and until the
planned World War III is finally ready to get underway.

"An overwhelming majority of 72% of American troops serving in Iraq
think the U.S. should exit the country within the next year, and more than
one in four say the troops should leave immediately, a new Le Moyne College/Zogby
International survey shows. The poll, conducted in conjunction with Le Moyne
College’s Center for Peace and Global Studies, showed that 29% of the
respondents, serving in various branches of the armed forces, said the U.S.
should leave Iraq “immediately,” while another 22% said they should
leave in the next six months. Another 21% said troops should be out between
six and 12 months, while 23% said they should stay 'as long as they are needed'."

"Different branches had quite different sentiments on the question,
the poll shows. While 89% of reserves and 82% of those in the National Guard
said the U.S. should leave Iraq within a year, 58% of Marines think so. Seven
in ten of those in the regular Army thought the U.S. should leave Iraq in
the next year. Moreover, about three-quarters of those in National Guard and
Reserve units favor withdrawal within six months ..."

This is startling news, so jarring that the Pentagon immediately issued a
declaration stating that they did not believe this poll result. Truly, the
military family has been one of the President's main support columns since
the beginning of the invasion. If this column is crumbling now, the President
could be in real political trouble. Supporting American troops in the field
has long been one of the truly deep and permanent psychological anchors within
the Republican Party, and amongst Conservative Democrats. This report seems
to indicate that this strong, dependable source of support for Mr. Bush is
eroding quickly.

This next revelation is truly startling.

“ 'Ninety-three percent said that removing weapons of mass destruction
is not a reason for U.S. troops being there', said Pollster John Zogby, President
and CEO of Zogby International. 'Instead, that initial rationale went by the
wayside and, in the minds of 68% of the troops, the real mission became to
remove Saddam Hussein'.” (Ibid.)

Evidently, American troops have stopped listening to the incessant propaganda
which is fed to them every hour of every day, and have started to realize
that no Weapons of Mass Destruction were ever found. Perhaps some of them
even heard David Kay, President Bush's chief weapons hunter, finally declare
that Saddam never had WMD after 1991, and that the idea that WMD will ever
be discovered is "delusional". ("US
expert slams WMD 'delusions' ", BBC News, 5 June, 2004)

I would take the words of Bush's own weapons hunter before I would accept
the propaganda pouring forth now from outlets like NewsMax, saying that Saddam
had hidden the cache in Syria before the war. Even our own troops in Iraq
now know the truth -- "removing weapons of mass destruction is not a
reason for U.S. troops being there"

V. Even with two successive curfews in effect,
Iraqi insurgents bathed the country in blood last week. The deliberate
bombing of the Shi'ite holy shrine on 2/22/2006, immediately killing 22 people,
continued to plunge Iraq toward civil war.

"Iraqi PM Ibrahim Jaafari has vowed not to let sectarian violence derail
work on a new government, after a week in which over 400 people died violently.
The count seems to be a response to US media reports of higher casualties.
The deaths follow a bomb attack on a Shia Muslim shrine in the city of Samarra
last Wednesday. US President George W Bush said Iraqis must choose either
'chaos or unity'. "

You know the President is backtracking when he forgets about preaching "Iraqi
freedom" and begins lecturing the Iraqis about "choosing either
chaos or unity".

"The week-long nationwide death count was released in what correspondents
say is an unusual move for the Iraqi government. It appears to have been a
direct response to a figure of 1,300 dead, quoting a Baghdad mortuary official,
published by the Washington Post newspaper. The BBC's Jim Muir in Baghdad
says the latest attacks are an apparently coordinated onslaught aimed at killing
and injuring as many people as possible. They come, he notes, amid growing
fears of a slide towards sectarian strife since the attack on the Shia shrine.
At least 60 people died in bombings in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, on Tuesday
alone.

"More than 100 others were wounded in the attacks which saw three bombs
going off within two minutes of each other earlier in the day in mixed areas
of the city. Car bombs targeted a market and a post office while the third
blast happened when a man with explosives strapped to his body blew himself
up in a queue of motorists waiting for petrol. In incidents elsewhere in Iraq,
two British soldiers were killed in Amara and at least two Iraqi policemen
were shot dead in Mosul."

Iraqi leaders in both the Shi'ite and the Sunni camps expressed alarm that
the country may be heading for all-out civil war.

"BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraqi political and religious leaders struggled Friday
to pull the nation back from the brink of sectarian civil war, calling for
peace and extending through today a daytime curfew meant to reduce the level
of violence between Shiite and Sunni Muslims that has left more than 150 people
dead this week. Joint Sunni-Shiite prayer services were broadcast on television.
Government security forces flooded the streets, beefing up protection of mosques
and other religious sites. U.S. military forces stepped up patrols around
the volatile parts of the country ... But the bloodshed continued, including
a gunbattle between Shiite Muslim militiamen and suspected Sunni Arab insurgents
in Baghdad and attacks elsewhere that left at least 30 dead on Friday. At
least three Sunni mosques in southern Baghdad were attacked late Friday night."

Obviously, this renewed violence throws fresh doubt upon the ability of American
forces to withdraw with any shred of dignity, as we did with Vietnam. At least
North Vietnam waited for over a year after Americans troops withdrew before
they attacked to destroy South Vietnam. During that time, President Ford could
actually pretend that the Nixon withdrawal strategy was correct after all!
It looks here as though American troops may have to withdraw under fire!

This next article speaks to the issue of troop drawdown, a necessary prerequisite
to final withdrawal.

"The recent explosion of violence in Iraq is forcing a debate inside
the Pentagon about whether the US military can proceed with plans to cut the
number of troops in Iraq. The violence came at a crucial time for the US military:
top generals must decide within weeks whether to carry out a long-anticipated
reduction in American troops this summer. Threats of civil war in the country
have raised questions about the wisdom of a troop drawdown in the next few
months ... For nearly a year, senior commanders have said political progress
in Baghdad and the development of new Iraqi army units could lead to substantial
US troop cuts this year. They have pointed to mid-2006 as a pivotal period,
making pending decisions on troop levels a telling indicator of progress ...
US officials are concerned that armed sectarian militias are gaining power
inside Iraq, and that many Iraqi police units are more loyal to ethnic and
religious leaders than to Iraq's national government."

This last statement truly reminds me of Vietnam, where many South Vietnamese
police and soldiers were more loyal to the Communist cause than to the American-inspired
"Fight For Freedom". South Vietnamese and American interrogators
and operators of the infamous "Phoenix" assassination teams had
so alienated the population that the government quickly fell as soon as the
North Vietnamese struck hard.

VI. This same deplorable situation is now occurring
in Iraq. Not only have American military tactics been so brutal
as to kill well over 100,000 civilians, but the jailing and torturing of innocent
people has gotten as bad as, or worse than, Saddam Hussein!

"Hundreds of Iraqis are being tortured to death or summarily executed
every month in Baghdad alone by death squads working from the Ministry of
the Interior, says the United Nations' outgoing human rights chief in Iraq.
John Pace, who left Baghdad two weeks ago, said up to three-quarters of the
corpses stacked in the city's mortuary show evidence of gunshot wounds to
the head or injuries caused by drill-bits or burning cigarettes. Much of the
killing, he said, was carried out by Shiite groups under the ministry's control
... in last July alone the morgue received 1100 bodies, about 900 of which
bore evidence of torture or summary execution.

" 'It's being done by anyone who wishes to wipe out anybody else for
various reasons', said Pace, who worked for the United Nations for more than
40 years in countries such as Liberia and Chile. 'But the bulk are attributed
to the agents of the Ministry of the Interior'."

"Many of the 110,000 policemen and police commandos under the ministry's
control are suspected of being former members of the Badr Brigade. Not only
counter-insurgency units such as the Wolf Brigade and the Scorpions, but the
commandos and even the highway patrol police have been accused of acting as
death squads. The commandos, who dress in garish camouflage and hoods, are
dreaded in Sunni neighbourhoods. People they arrest frequently turn up dead
several days later, their bodies bearing obvious marks of torture."

Lest you think that this torture and murder campaign being carried out by
the Ministry of the Interior is completely opposed to the American ideal,
I can only point you to the Abu Ghraib campaign of torture and sexual humiliation.
The Ministry of the Interior seems to be very confident that their activities
are consistent with the wishes of American forces in Iraq.

How bad is this campaign of torture? Note this next article also quotes John
Pace, the source of the story in the New Zealand Herald, above.

"Human rights abuses in Iraq are worse than they were under Saddam Hussein,
John Pace, the UN’s outgoing human rights chief in Iraq said Thursday.
Pace, who left his post last month, said that there is an increase in the
level of extra-judicial executions and torture in Iraq. 'Under Saddam, if
you agreed to forgo your basic right to freedom of expression and thought,
you were physically more or less OK," Pace said in an interview with
The Associated Press. 'But now, no. Here, you have a primitive, chaotic situation
where anybody can do anything they want to anyone'. The scale of atrocity
now 'extends over a much wider section of the population than it did under
Saddam'."

Does anyone remember that, as people throughout the world began to realize
that no Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) were going to be found, the mantra
from the White House changed to "Saddam was a bad man who hurt and killed
his own people", and the "world is a safer place now that he is
gone". Really? Do you also remember that President Bush falsely assured
Iraqis that they would not face torture chambers any more?

"Last week, the U.S. military placed an order for $38 million in depleted
uranium rounds, bringing the total amount of the order from a West-Virginia
Based company to $77 million for fiscal year 2006. The new order was placed
with Alliant Techsystems for 120-mm ammunition. Once the new deal is completed,
the company will have produced 35,000 rounds for the U.S. army. In a statement,
the company making the deadly weapon said: "Its state-of-the-art composite
sabot, propellant, and penetrator technologies give it outstanding accuracy
and lethality. The Pentagon uses depleted uranium in its rounds because it
says that it is extremely effective in penetrating heavy armor. But critics
of these controversial munitions believe that inhaling the radioactive dust
left by the highly combustible weapon causes cancer and birth defects."

As Cutting Edge has stated so often, Depleted Uranium is a population killer.
Indeed, from the beginning of this Iraqi conflict, a medical doctor of a modern
Middle East army thoroughly trained in modern desert warfare called to tell
me that, in no more than 20 years, both Iraq and Afghanistan would be totally
inhabitable! They would be countries from which sick survivors would be fleeing.
The air, water, and ground are even now so polluted that civilians are dying
more rapidly every year.

"Depleted uranium remains radioactive for 4.5 billion years. The byproduct
of manufacturing nuclear weapons or reactors contaminate water and soil. It
also poses a more serious threat when it is inhaled and absorbed into the
human body. Studies show that DU can remain in human organs for years. According
to an editorial on The Guardian, the depleted uranium (DU) used in the first
Gulf War led to a significant increase in the levels of childhood leukaemia
and birth defects in Iraq ... In the “Highway of Death” in Iraq,
radiation levels register 1,000 times normal background radiation levels.
Tedd Weymann, deputy head of the Uranium Medical Research Centre (UMRC), said:
'At one point the readings were so high that an alarm on one of my instruments
went off telling me to get back. Yet despite these alarmingly high levels
of radiation children play on the tanks or close by'."

"The exact amount of DU used during the 2003 Iraq war hasn’t been
revealed, but some experts estimate it was more than a thousand tons used
in more than 51 sites across the country. An Iraqi tank destroyed by the U.S.
weapon in Basra, where UK forces are stationed, registered 2,500 times normal
background radiation. In the surrounding area, researchers recorded radioactivity
levels 20 times higher than normal."

Even the Coalition Headquarters in Baghdad, known as the Green Zone, is registering
20 times normal radiation!

"In 2003, Human Rights Watch said that hundreds of 'preventable' civilian
deaths in Iraq have been caused by the use of cluster bombs by U.S. and UK
occupation forces. Experts also called for the water and milk being used by
Iraqi civilians in Basra, where more than 1 million people live, to be monitored
after analysis of biological and soil samples from area found 'the highest
number, highest levels and highest concentrations of radioactive source points'
in the Basra suburb of Abu Khasib ... The U.S. and its allies committed another
war crime in Fallujah, which witnessed a bloody offensive in 2004. Residents,
mainly civilians, were subject to bombardment by napalm, depleted uranium
shells, phosphorus bombs (a weapon that is illegal if used against civilians).
The use of such banned weapons makes the U.S. responsible for the same crimes
that the toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is accused of."

This last statement brings us back to the story, above, when we learned that
the torture of prisoners at the hands of the Interior Ministry is now "worse
than under Saddam". America has committed war crimes of an unbelievable
magnitude, and when the American public finally gets hold of the reality that
their beloved sons and daughters who have fought Bush's "Freedom for
Iraqis" was are slowly dying by inches from a disease caused by Depleted
Uranium, the final push will be on for Bush to be politically ruined.

VIII.
Perhaps not surprising, President Bush sank dramatically last week in the
polls.

"(CBS) The latest CBS News poll finds President Bush's approval rating
has fallen to an all-time low of 34 percent, while pessimism about the Iraq
war has risen to a new high. Americans are also overwhelmingly opposed to
the Bush-backed deal giving a Dubai-owned company operational control over
six major U.S. ports. Seven in 10 Americans, including 58 percent of Republicans,
say they're opposed to the agreement."

"Mr. Bush's overall job rating has fallen to 34 percent, down from 42
percent last month. Fifty-nine percent disapprove of the job the president
is doing. For the first time in this poll, most Americans say the president
does not care much about people like themselves. Fifty-one percent now think
he doesn't care, compared to 47 percent last fall. Just 30 percent approve
of how Mr. Bush is handling the Iraq war, another all-time low ... By two
to one, the poll finds Americans think U.S. efforts to bring stability to
Iraq are going badly – the worst assessment yet of progress in Iraq."

Finally, the steady daily pounding of bad war news, of American soldiers
being killed and/or maimed, and of Iraqi civilians being blown up, has caused
the President to begin sinking in the polls. One cannot help but contrast
the continually sunny rhetoric about how wonderfully freedom is being defended
in Iraq to the deadly, bloody reality shaking Iraq every single day. Even
today, TV commercials are airing which tout the "progress" of the
Bush effort in Iraq, and fanning the patriotic flames as high as they will
go.

Yet, reality is finally gaining a foothold in the American psyche. Even in
the arena of the phony "War On Terror", the Teflon this president
has been wearing is getting thin.

"Even on fighting terrorism, which has long been a strong suit for Mr.
Bush, his ratings dropped lower than ever. Half of Americans say they disapprove
of how he's handling the war on terror, while 43 percent approve."

Since President Bush is losing poll support even on the issue of "fighting
terror" -- the one spot Bush could always count on to receive an upward
jolt in the polls -- is it time to stage something really and truly dramatic,
something guaranteed to shoot Bush's popularity skyward? What could that one
staged event be?

Is it now time to "capture" Osama bin Laden -- the man many Americans
love to hate?

"March 1 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush, on a surprise trip
to Afghanistan today, said he was 'confident' the fugitive al-Qaeda terrorist
leader Osama bin Laden will be 'brought to justice' ... Apprehending bin Laden,
reported to be hiding in the mountainous area on the Pakistan-Afghan border,
wasn't a question of `if but when,'' Bush said during the press conference
with Karzai ..."

My ears perked up when I heard President Bush announce that Osama bin Laden
"would be caught". What a wonderful event that would be for Bush's
popularity ratings! Can anyone forget how Saddam Hussein was captured at just
the time in August, 2003, when Americans began to have questions about whether
the fighting was really over, as President Bush had promised them on May 1,
2003? The buzz over Saddam's staged capture -- if that is really the true
Saddam and not one of his 13 doubles -- lasted nearly one full year!

If Osama were to be captured fairly close to the November off-year elections,
that could bring a huge boost to the President's popularity at the very time
Americans are marching to the polls to elect a new Congress. Since the issue
of impeachment probably depends upon whether Democrats can gain control of
Congress in this coming November election, any event which would dramatically
increase the popularity of Republicans would be of utmost importance.

Therefore, at a most propitious time, do not be surprised by a sudden announcement
that Osama bin Laden has been captured.

Unpopularity over this disastrous Iraqi War has also hit Great Britain.

"(Angus Reid Global Scan) – Few adults in Britain are content
with Tony Blair, according to a poll by Ipsos-MORI published in The Sun. 28
per cent of respondents are satisfied with their prime minister’s performance,
down nine points since November ... Yesterday, Dennis Healey—a former
chancellor of the exchequer considered as one of the Labour party’s
elder statesmen—suggested that Blair should step down soon, saying,
'I think Tony’s showing he is losing his grip, and the sooner Gordon
takes over the better'. 31 per cent of respondents are satisfied with the
current government, down two points in three months."

More and more British families are raising public voices against Blair's
leadership in this most terrible war.

IX.
Speaking of the word "Impeachment", we have noted that this word
is gaining more and more ground, just as we predicted over two years ago!

"GOP political strategists fear a shift in Congressional seats from
Republican to Democratic hands in the mid-term elections this November could
spur a renewed movement to impeach President George W. Bush. 'A possibility',
admits political scientist George Harleigh, who served in the Nixon and Reagan
administrations. 'The margin of the GOP majority in both the House and Senate
protects the President right now but a shift could build momentum to impeach'."

"Dissatisfaction grows almost daily with Bush in both the moderate and
conservative Republican ranks and some might be willing to go along with Democratic
calls for impeachment to protect their own seats if the GOP majority is reduced
by the elections. 'Look, this administration has become the gang that can't
shoot straight', says one unhappy strategist that I worked with during my
days on Capitol Hill from 1981-87. 'The Democrats don't even have to win back
control. If they make enough gains that will scare the Republicans enough
to think more about their own political hides' ... more and more grumble in
the cloakroom and the back halls of Congress, saying Bush is a serious liability
to the party and may need to go.

The private talk intensified this week with published reports that Vice President
Dick Cheney may retire after the mid-terms, allowing Bush to select a new
vice president who would need to be confirmed by Congress."

" 'At the moment, Cheney is Bush's job security', says Harleigh. 'As
bad as the Democrats loath Bush they can't stand the thought of a President
Cheney'."

This same situation existed during the Nixon impeachment months, did it not?
Vice President Spiro Agnew was so hated that, as long as he was V.P., President
Nixon was safe. But, when Agnew was indicted, he resigned, Bilderberger man
Gerald Ford became V.P., and the move to impeach Nixon gained sudden momentum.

"New polls show Bush's personal and job approval ratings plummeting
to 34 percent but Cheney's ratings fall even lower to 18 percent. What really
concerns GOP political operatives, though, is the sharp drop in the President's
personal popularity. 'The polls clearly show Americans don't trust the President
and, even worse, they don't like him', Harleigh says. 'His credibility is
shot and his likeability isn't far behind'. The polls also show the distrust
spreads to Republicans who show public support for Bush and his policies.
'The prospects look very grim for Republicans', says Ross Baker, a political
scientist at Rutgers University."

If Cutting Edge is right that a campaign to discredit Bush to the point of
political ruin has been in action for over two years now, then this kind of
news makes a whole lot of sense. We shall just have to wait to see how it
all works out.

Before we leave this subject, let us hearken back to the statement, above,
that the Bush gang has become known as "the gang that can't shoot straight".
This next news story speaks directly to this public perception.

"WASHINGTON -- It seems that everything is going wrong for the Bush
White House lately. Why? The uproar over an Arab-controlled firm taking over
major U.S. ports is a tempest in a teapot, there is no evidence it will weaken
already-inferior security at our ports. But the episode shows an astonishing
lack of political acumen by the usually astute Bush administration. In an
election year, with one-third of the Senate and the entire House up for grabs,
it seems preposterous that the White House didn't think through the ramifications
of not conferring with key members of Congress before rubber stamping a deal
with a company controlled by a country that spawned two of the 9/11 hijackers..."

"The Texas shooting accident involving Vice President Cheney and his
friend was embarrassing and could have been tragic. But the aftermath was
far more damaging than it had to be because it appeared that there was an
effort to cover up the incident. The inscrutable vice president without a
valid hunting license seemed unapologetic and defensive. And why didn't President
Bush appear concerned?"

"... The heartbreaking sectarian violence erupting throughout Iraq has
far more to do with ancient hatreds than the U.S. role in "liberating"
Iraq, but it also is at least partially a result of failure by the administration
to realize that a collapse of Iraqi society would breed civil war ... The
worldwide outcry over the new U.S. policy of imprisoning people for years
without formal charges, without a trial and without recourse to lawyers certainly
should not surprise the administration. It has never explained why prison
abuses were permitted at Abu Ghraib. It has refused to open Guantanamo up
to inspection by human-rights observers or reporters. It has never adequately
defended the frightening policy of rendition _ transferring prisoners to secret
prisons in Eastern Europe."

"The administration's ham-handed defense of the Patriot Act might have
gone more smoothly if it hadn't also been reclassifying 55,000 declassified
documents as secret, many of them puzzlingly innocuous. The administration's
effort to shroud almost every aspect of government in secrecy should scare
every patriot ... In a climate of diminishing respect for civil liberties,
Bush's job-approval rating has fallen to its lowest level so far because his
administration increasingly is perceived as arrogant and secretive. Even many
Republicans who have been loyally supportive worry that his administration
feels that it is above the law and doesn't have to listen to anyone else ...
The administration of this seemingly amiable man ... has begun to represent
government at its worst: uncaring, incompetent, bureaucratic, unresponsive
and full of hot air and quixotic rules."

"People want - and need - to believe that their leaders are competent.
This White House is making that more difficult with every passing week."

In the two-year-old effort to discredit President Bush, this week's news
seems designed to bring him down to a new low.

X.
A new video clip showing President Bush being briefed on Hurricane Katrina
just hours before she hit cannot do Bush's public perception any good, and
does seem to fall into the "Incompetent" category, as the above
article so succinctly states.

"Video showing President George W Bush being warned on the eve of Hurricane
Katrina that New Orleans' flood defences could be overcome has emerged. The
footage, obtained by the Associated Press, also shows Mr Bush being told of
the risk to evacuees in the Superdome. It appears to contradict Mr Bush's
statement four days after Katrina hit, when he said: 'I don't think anyone
anticipated the breach of the levees'."

When I heard that statement, I laughed, because I could remember the FEMA
prediction of the three disasters America faced (Newsletter for September
17, 2005, Paragraph II, B).

One of those "predictions" was that a major hurricane could devastate
New Orleans. Since hurricanes hit cities all the time in the past several
years, what could possibly be so terrible about a hurricane in New Orleans?
The levee system. Once that levee broke, 80% of New Orleans was under water.
Now, let us go back to this featured article.

"Speaking by video link from a room in his Texan holiday ranch on 28
August last year, Mr Bush is shown telling federal disaster officials: 'We
are fully prepared'."

This statement may yet go down in history as one of the dumbest on record!
President Bush' performance, FEMA's performance, and the performance of "first
responders" down the line was so inadequate it defied the imagination
and caused the deaths of too many people.

"The footage does the president no favours, the BBC's Justin Webb reports
from Washington. It shows plainly worried officials telling Mr Bush very clearly
before the storm hit that it could breach New Orleans' flood barriers. In
the past, the president has said nobody anticipated a breach but the video
shows Michael Brown, the top emergency response official who has since resigned,
saying the storm would be 'a bad one, a big one'. He also gives a strong,
clear warning that evacuees in the Superdome in New Orleans could not be given
proper assistance."

"Another official, Max Mayfield of the National Hurricane Center, tells
the final briefing that storm models predict minimal flooding inside New Orleans
during the hurricane. But he adds that the possibility that anticlockwise
winds and storm surges could cause the levees at Lake Pontchartrain to be
overrun afterwards is 'obviously a very, very grave concern'. His concern
was borne out by events when levees collapsed, letting in the floodwater disastrously."

The New Orleans mayor could not believe his eyes.

"New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, shown the footage for the first time at
a press conference, told Reuters he was 'shocked' by what it revealed."

Republicans are finding it harder and harder to defend President Bush --
and that may be his greatest weakness right now and for the immediate future.

Early this morning, news reports were posted in which a clarification was
issues, trying to show that President Bush really was not remiss in his leadership.
Here is the statement, from The Druge Report, Saturday, 3/4/2006.

"The Army Corps of Engineers considers a breach a hole developing in
a levee rather than an overrun. The story should have made clear that Bush
was warned about floodwaters overrunning the levees, rather than the levees
breaking. The day before the storm hit, Bush was told there were grave concerns
that the levees could be overrun. It wasn't until the next morning, as the
storm was hitting, that Michael Brown, then head of the Federal Emergency
Management Agency, said Bush had inquired about reports of breaches. Bush
did not participate in that briefing."

---------Conclusion----------------"I am
poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint." Psalm
22:14

Did earth or heaven ever behold a sadder spectacle of woe! In soul and body,
our Lord felt Himself to be weak as water poured upon the ground. The placing
of the cross in its socket had shaken Him with great violence, had strained
all the ligaments, pained every nerve, and more or less dislocated all His
bones. Burdened with His own weight, the august sufferer felt the strain increasing
every moment of those six long hours. His sense of faintness and general weakness
were overpowering; while to His own consciousness He became nothing but a
mass of misery and swooning sickness. When Daniel saw the great vision, he
thus describes his sensations, "There remained no strength in me, for
my vigour was turned into corruption, and I retained no strength:" how
much more faint must have been our greater Prophet when He saw the dread vision
of the wrath of God, and felt it in His own soul! To us, sensations such as
our Lord endured would have been insupportable, and kind unconsciousness would
have come to our rescue; but in His case, He was wounded, and felt the sword;
He drained the cup and tasted every drop.

"O King of Grief! (a title strange, yet true
To Thee of all kings only due)
O King of Wounds! how shall I grieve for Thee,
Who in all grief preventest me!"

As we kneel before our now ascended Saviour's throne, let us remember well
the way by which He prepared it as a throne of grace for us; let us in spirit
drink of His cup, that we may be strengthened for our hour of heaviness whenever
it may come. In His natural body every member suffered, and so must it be
in the spiritual; but as out of all His griefs and woes His body came forth
uninjured to glory and power, even so shall His mystical body come through
the furnace with not so much as the smell of fire upon it.